Earlier this month, UNC-Chapel Hill debuted a policy that gave the university license to secretly record classes without a professor’s knowledge. At a faculty council meeting Friday afternoon, Chancellor Lee Roberts announced the university is reversing course.
“The whole idea was to create clarity and reassurance,” Roberts said. “That policy clearly has not achieved that aim. So I’ve talked to the provost and to the faculty chair about it. We’re going to scrap it, and we’ll go back to the drawing board.”
The faculty council was stunned into silence. After months of accusing university leadership of decisions that flew in the face of their wishes, the revocation came as a surprise…